Extract from Sam Bock’s article “Beyond Lit Support: Advice on Branching Out to Serve More Practice Areas with In-house Technology”
At Nutter, Kate Jansons Johns passionately believes that in-house e-discovery software can be useful in many practice groups beyond litigation. In fact, her team has begun an active campaign to share their RelativityOne access with more attorneys across the firm.
As Kate puts it, leveraging in-house tools in new ways doesn’t just help support law firms’ bottom lines by maximizing their investments in the software they’re already using; it can also help attorneys better serve their clients with innovative, efficient solutions to their unique challenges.
We sat down with Kate to hear more about her experience on this campaign, and gather her advice for those looking to capitalize on similar opportunities with their own teams.
Tell us a little bit about your role at Nutter and what’s unique about your team.
I’ve been the manager of knowledge and practice support services for almost a year. Before that, I was the Litigation Support Manager for four years. My current role involves overseeing the use of litigation support technology across all practice areas. I am currently collaborating with our corporate department to implement Relativity for transactional tasks, and plan to extend this initiative to our real estate, private client, and IP practices.
